bringing up daughters

you’re strong, a storm-braver if ever I saw one

thequietworld:

#look at the gears shift

“I know you’re sad about Patrick. Whatever you say, I know it.”

suicideblonde:

“There’s an independence about Mary - she’s not influenced by anyone and she’s very much her own person, she makes her own decisions. I understand her because I’m one of three girls too and I’ve always been defiant that I didn’t want to do what they did.”

- Michelle Dockery, “The World of Downton Abbey”

“It’s so empty.”

“You know Mary. She likes to be in at the kill.”